The NBA spent two days fully hyping up the Oklahoma City Thunder's 129-122 loss to the Cleveland Cavaliers. The historic matchup featured two teams who won at least 30 games in their first 35 of the season.

The Cavs beat the Thunder, 129-122, in an epic battle between the two best teams in the NBA. That third quarter? It was special, man. The two teams combined for a whopping 84 points. There wasn't a ton of foul-baiting. Nobody shot 50 3-pointers. There wasn't any controversy. Just a whole lot of bucket-getting across the board.

It makes sense that the two teams with the two best records in the NBA would deliver an intense and entertaining regular season battle, especially when it was t